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Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...
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Technological upgradation and increasing capital intensity in organised manufacturing sector in India has been championed on grounds of improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. In a developing economy this is a costly proposition due to capital scarcity, and the effect of...
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show that technological investments have the greatest positive impact on the growth of labour productivity and on a decline … productivity growth in high-technology enterprises, but at the same time, the technological investments have an impact on the … increase of labour intensity. On the contrary, the influence of investment growth was insignificant on the indicators of …
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relates TFP growth to innovation output. We obtain two main results. First, the determinants of incremental and radical … that mostly adopt new equipment goods. The second result is that only radical innovations significantly affect TFP growth …. An important implication of this study is that patent and licenses play an important role in promoting growth since they …
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growth and movements in the competitiveness of manufacturing. While technical change is pervasive in modern manufacturing, it …
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firms, (iv) we highlight the role of post-entry growth for competitiveness. …
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firms, (iv) we highlight the role of post-entry growth for competitiveness. …
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Companies invest in research and development (R&D) to safeguard their competitive ability and increase productivity. Using extensive company data for Germany, the study shows that manufacturing companies that engage in R&D activities and that are located in a central urban agglomeration are...
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We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian economy during 2011-2019. We integrate datasets on trade activities, firms', and workers' characteristics for the population of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects...
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International trade is considered a vehicle for technology diffusion, which in turn can induce productivity growth …
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